Cigar-lighter.



E. BRUNHOFF.

CIGAR LIGHTER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.22| 1914.

Patented June 27, 1916.

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EDWARD BRUNHOFF, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

CIGAR-LIGHTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 27, 1916.

Application filed January 22, 1914. Serial No. 813,678.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWAR BRUNI-IOFF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Lighters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in electric cigar lighters.

One of its objects is to provide a cigar lighter torch suspended upon a flexible connection and provided with improved simple and reliablemeans to ignite and extinguish the torch.

Another object is to provide a cigar lighting torch and improved mechanism to ignite the torch by means of a jump spark as the torch is brought into operative position.

My invention also comprises certain details of form, combination andarrangement, all of which will be fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings,

. in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my im proved mechanism. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section through the torch and igniting mechanism, with the torch in normal or extinguished position. Fig. 3 is a detail view similar to Fig; 2 illustrating the position of the parts when the torch is being returned to idle or normal position. Fig. 1 is a detail perspective view of the contact members of the primary circuit. Fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating the electrical apparatus and its connections.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the preferred embodiment of my invention, in which A represents a container for the batteries 6 spark coil (Z and vibrator c of an electrical apparatus capable of producing a jump spark, or intermittent high tension current.

B represents a tubular standard detachably mounted upon the container A and provided at its base with contact members by means of which lead wires or insulated conductors passing through the bore of said standard may be electrically connected to the primary and secondary terminals of said jump spark apparatus.

D, represents a flexible tube rotatably connected to standard B at 30 and depending from the standard 13, and to the lower end of which the igniter casing E is atthrough said. fingers. The block 1.9 is held tached. The 'igniter casing E has preferably a detachable side or section held in place by the screw 2 to permit access to he interior of the said casing. an igniter torch Fls pivotally attached at the center or pivot 3 to the casing E. j

The torch comprises a base t having a lip or trigger 5 to swing through the arc of a circle with the center 3 as an axis, a wick tube f threaded into the based and with its upper end beveled to substantially the arc of a circle through which said, upper end travels, so as to come to rest by gravity in contact with an extinguisher plate 6 forming part of easing E. A chambered handle 7 detachably threaded to the base 4t serves to contain liquid fuel and to receive the lower end of a, wick 8 the upper end of which wick extends up through a central orifice in base 1- and through the wick tube to the upper end thereof.

A yoke shaped frame 9 is pivotally at tached at 10 to the casing E and normally held in engagement with a pin 11 carriedby the casing E, by means of a spring arm 12 which is attached to the frame 9 and bears against one wall of the casing E. Opposite 4 ends of frame 9 are provided with polygonal perforations in which are mounted .a switch bar lei movable endwise through said perforations. A spring 15 coiled about the bar 141 bears atone end againsta pin 16 carried by the bar 14:, and its opposite end against one end of the frame 9 to normally hold the switch bar 1 1 in retracted position. A

pair of spring switch fingers 17 and 18 are i attached toa block of fiber or other insulating material 19 with an opening between sald fingers into which the switch bar 14: is to be lnserted to close the prlmary c rcuit in place with reference to the casing E by means of screws 20. Finger 17 may also be omitted and the primary circuit closed through bar 14: and finger 18.

A spark point or terminal 21 is mountedin a porcelain or other insulating casing 22 held rigidly in place in a tubular recess in the casing E, with the terminal 21 close to the path traveled by the upper end of -the wicktube when turningon the center 3.

Theprimary current is led by one nsulated conductor 24 from the battery to the lower or under finger 1 7, and conductor is also in electrical contact with the casing, E,

and through it with the wick tube. The opposite primary conductor 25 is connected to the finger 18, and is insulated from the easing E. The conductor 26 leads from one end of the high tension coil 27 of the spark coil to the point 21. The opposite end of the high tension coil is connected to the conductor 24 by which the high tension current is led to the wick tube. When the base standard B is screwed in position on the container A, all the conductors are automatically connected to corresponding terminal of the battery and spark coil, and said standard may be removed or replaced at any time without making independent electrical connections.

In operation, the casing E being upon a flexible connection rotatably carried by standard B, may be moved to the operator, and the act of lifting the torch into position to light a cigar causes the torch to turn pivotally on center 3 relative to casing E, thereby causing the upper end of the torch to traverse a path beneath the point 21. At the same time the lip 5 engages the lower end of switch bar 14 and forces said bar into contact with the switch fingers 17 and 18 to close the primary circuit, which in turn causes a series of sparks to jump across the gap between the point 21 and the upper end of the torch to ignite the fuel at the end of the wick. Soon after the primary circuit has been closed the lip 5 passes out of engagement with the switch bar 14, which permits the spring 15 to re tract said bar and open the primary circuit. On the return of the torch and casing to original position, which will occur automatically by gravity when the torch is released by the operator, the lip 5 striking the side of the switch bar 14 will deflect the frame 9 upon its center 10 away from the pin 11 until the lip 5 has passed the lower end of the bar 14:, when spring 12 will. return frame 9 to normal position in engagement with pin 11. Thus the lip 5 is returned to its original or normal position without closing the primary circuit. As soon as the upper end of the wick tube is returned to engage the extinguisher plate 6 the flame is smothered or extinguished.

The mechanism herein illustrated and described is capable of considerable modification without departing from the principle of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A cigar lighter comprising a base, a tubular standard mounted thereon, a flexible connection depending from said standard, a casing carried and supported by said flexible connection, a torch pivotally connected to said casing, a high tension electric terminal carried by said casing and insulated from and close to the path traveled by the free end of said torch, a primary circuit switch actuated by the pivotal movement of said torch to close a primary circuit when said torch and high tension terminal are passing each other moving in one directlon, and means to automatically open and retain in open positlon said primary circuit as soon as the ignition point has been to engage said primary terminals to close the primary circuit when said torch and high tension terminal are passing each other moving in one direction, and means to automatically retract said switch blade as soon as the ignition point has been passed 3. A cigar lighter comprising a casing, a torch pivotally connected to said casing, an extinguisher plate carried by said casing, means to normally hold the torch in engagement with said extinguisher plate to extinguish the flame of the torch, a high tension electric terminal insulated from and close to the path traveled by said torch, a primary circuit having switch terminals carried by said casing, a pivotally supported, longitudinally movable, and automatically retracted switch blade to close said primary circuit, and a member carried by said torch to engage and subsequently release said switch blade to close said primary circuit only when said torch and high tension terminal are opposite each other and said torch pivotally moving in one direction.

4. A cigar lighter comprising a casing, a rotatably mounted connection rigidly supported at one end and dependingly and movably supporting said casing at its opsite end, a torch pivotally connected to said casing, a high tension electric terminal. insulated from and close to the path traveled by said torch, a primary circuit switch comprising a switch member carried stationarily relative to said casing and a movable spring retracted switch member actuated by the movement of said torch in one direction to close a primary circuit when said torch and high tension terminal are opposite each other, and to retain said primary circuit switch in open condition at other positions of the cycle of movement of said torch.

5. A cigar lighter comprising a casin a tubular flexible connection rotatab y mounted relative to a fixed support and 1 M lli connected to and supporting said casing at tension terminal are opposite each other its opposite end, a high tension electric terand said torch moving in one direction. 10 lninal insulated from and close to the path In testimony whereof Ihave afiixed my traveled by said torch, a spring retracted signature in presence of two Witnesses.

primary circuit switch carried by said cas- EDWARD BRUNHOFF. ing and actuated by the movement of said Witnesses:

torch relative to said casing to close a pri C. W. MILES,

mary circuit only when said torch and high W. THORNTON BOGERT.

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